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15661 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: > >>> dhenwood at panix.com 02/01/06 1:24 PM >>> >American unions have a long relationship with >organized crime >Doug ><<<<<>>>>> > >may not matter much after so many decades, but origins >of above were in company and state repression/violence, Yeah, but how come it didn't happen anywhere else? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 1 12:25:33 PST 2006

15662 [lbo-talk] lust and money -- rank: 1000

Brain Scans Show Link Between Lust for Sex and Money (Update1) 2006-02-01 12:23 (New York) (Adds that Peterson is opening a hedge fund in 61st paragraph.) By Adam Levy Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Late at night, in a basement laboratory at Stanford University, Brian Knutson made a startling discovery: Our brains lust after money, just like they crave sex. It was May 2004, and Knutson, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the California university, was sending student volunteers through a high- ...

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15663 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And you'll be happy to know that opponents of "fair share" health plans are >siting arguments such as Fitch's to demonize unions and anti-Wal-Mart bills. >There's no real likelihood of single payer being enacted now, but the >accusations of corruption against union funds is enthusiastically being >cited in support of moving to 401(k)s and Medical Savings Accounts. So >cheerio-- let's bash the unions and promote the end of employer-based >ben ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 1 12:12:50 PST 2006

15664 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Call that "fulminating" if you want, but personally, I kind of like the idea >of argument and analysis grounded in . . . well, you know, fact. From what >I've read of Fitch, that doesn't seem to be his position. Try reading the book. As you might imagine, the publisher sic'd lawyers on it. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 1 12:10:53 PST 2006

15665 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >My god-- of course someone like Fitch can fill a book with corruption >stories. He can also do the same and far more with stories of government >corruption. And more books on corporate corruption when they control large >sums of money. So what? Money means there will be corruption, but the >question is whether unions have any more than parallel institutions. I've >never seen any compelling evidence that they do. > >In fact, despite all the s ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 1 10:24:23 PST 2006

15666 [lbo-talk] Rolling Stone in Vegas -- rank: 1000

[what would HST say?] New York Observer - February 6, 2006 Viva Las Wenner! Rolling Stone Is Planning Casino By Gabriel Sherman On the weekend of Jan. 28, Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner traveled to Las Vegas to work on plans for a Rolling Stone Hotel and Casino. Mr. Wenner's magazine has a long history with the city. On assignment there in November 1971, Rolling Stone writer Hunter S. Thompson announced the defeat of the counterculture: From the city, Thompson wrote, "you can almost see ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 1 09:26:36 PST 2006

15667 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I don't discount the corruption or its importance. In re: the point at hand >-- unions' non-support of single payer -- I don't think it's the fundamental >problem. Please read Fitch's book before you conclude this. As with most things, there are many causes per effect, but this one is systematically underestimated by the pro-labor left. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 1 09:00:38 PST 2006

15668 [lbo-talk] factchecking SOTU -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - February 1, 2006 Assertions on Spying, Jobs And Spending Invite Debate By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer In his State of the Union address last night, President Bush waded right in the middle of the debate over his warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, making a number of assertions that have been subject to intense debate. For instance, Bush strongly suggested that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks could have been prevented if the phone calls of two hijackers had be ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 1 08:59:19 PST 2006

15669 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Unions with well-run funds could have a reason for opposing single-payer. >Like a lot of other people, if they are happy with their current coverage, >there is less reason to rock the boat for an unknown alternative. > >The root of this is not corruption, but the fragmentation and implied >political disunity underlying an employer-based system. That's part of it, but Fitch's tales of corruption in union-run funds go on for pages. They're used for self-enr ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 1 04:36:30 PST 2006

15670 [lbo-talk] "dozens" show up in Times Sq to protest Saddam's hanging -- rank: 1000

On Dec 31, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > Judging by the turnout, sounds like all of them. There aren't many, but there are more than a "few dozen" in NYC, comrade. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 31 14:50:39 PST 2006

15671 [lbo-talk] "dozens" show up in Times Sq to protest Saddam's hanging -- rank: 1000

On Dec 31, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > What socialist would demonstrate on behalf of Saddam? Not many, judging by the turnout. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 31 14:29:30 PST 2006

15672 [lbo-talk] "dozens" show up in Times Sq to protest Saddam's hanging -- rank: 1000

WBAI Sunday News at Six: 12/31/2006 at 6PM EST, WBAI-99.5FM, streaming at www.wbai.org and archived at www.archive.wbai.org 10 minutes after the broacast. Times Square Vigil for Saddam Hussein's Execution, Saturday 12/30/2006, New York City By Fred Nguyen, WBAI Reporter Sound File Location: www.radio4all.net/pub/files/siddharta5 at yahoo.com/ Sound File Name: 450-1-20061231-TimesSquareVigil-WBAISen.mp3 Sound File Specs: 5 min 59 sec, mp3-128 kbps, 5 MB PROGRAM LEAD (TO BE READ LIVE BEFORE SEGM ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 31 14:07:17 PST 2006

15673 [lbo-talk] Re: Fidel -- rank: 1000

On Dec 31, 2006, at 4:54 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > It's all well and good that the Venceramos Brigades had a positive > impact on the Cuban government, but they haven't managed to change the > US government's policy toward Cuba and to lift the embargo, and _it's > the latter that is the more important task in "critical solidarity."_ > The embargo diminishes the quality of life of gay Cubans as well as > straight Cubans. I'm confused. You keep harping on the powerl ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 31 05:59:54 PST 2006

15674 [lbo-talk] Saddam hanging video -- rank: 1000

Captured on a cellphone, really poor quality, but here it is, for those with incurably prurient interests: <http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=863ce7d4a3> Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 30 21:23:07 PST 2006

15675 [lbo-talk] socialism lives! -- rank: 1000

First the NY Post identifies Tinsley "The Tinz" Mortimer as a socialist - and now this, from the Mac OS X VersionTracker: > Socialist 1.0.1 (Shareware - 12/29/2006) > social bookmarking reinvented > http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31559

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